2019 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Postseason
In the weeks following the finale of the 2019 MEAC regular season, many organizations began to announce finalists and winners of various post-season awards and honors. several players for the Aggies, were honored with postseason awards and accolades including redshirt senior offensive lineman Marcus Pettiford, Redshirt Junior Running Back Jah-Maine Martin, and Junior Kicker Noel Ruiz.


2019 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Postseason
Marcus Pettiford was named MEAC Offensive Lineman of the year. He was also named to the American Football Coaches Association FCS Coaches' All-America 1st team. In addition to that honor, Pettiford was also named to the BOXTOROW All-America team, STATS FCS, AP FCS, and Hero Sports All-America 2nd Teams. Jah-Maine Martin was named the FCS Offensive Player of the Year by HBCU Gameday. In addition to that honor, Martin was named a finalist for the Black College Football Hall of Fame Player of the Year and the Walter Payton awards.


2019 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Postseason
lastly, Martin was also named to the BOXTOROW All-America, STATS FCS, AP FCS, and Hero Sports All-America 2nd teams. Noel Ruiz was the Special Teams Player of the Year by BOXTOROW. In addition to that honor, Ruiz was named to the AFCA Coaches All-America 1st team. In addition to the previously mentioned players, Redshirt Sophomore Center Dacquari Wilson was named to the BOXTOROW All-America team and freshman linebacker Jacob Roberts was named a finalist for the Jerry Rice Award, which is awarded annually to the most outstanding freshman player in the FCS.


2019 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Postseason
The following A&T players were also named to the All–MEAC First, Second, and Third Teams:


2019 North Carolina Central Eagles football team
The 2019 North Carolina Central Eagles football team represented North Carolina Central University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Trei Oliver. The Eagles played their home games at O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 4–8, 3–5 in MEAC play to finish in sixth place.


2019 North Carolina Central Eagles football team, Previous season
The Eagles finished the 2018 season 5–6, 3–4 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for sixth place.


2019 North Carolina Central Eagles football team, Preseason, MEAC poll
In the MEAC preseason poll released on July 26, 2019, the Eagles were predicted to finish in fifth place.


2019 North Carolina Central Eagles football team, Preseason, Preseason All–MEAC teams
The Eagles had seven players selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams.


2019 North Carolina Courage season
The 2019 North Carolina Courage season is the team's third season as a professional women's soccer team. North Carolina Courage plays in the National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States.


2019 North Carolina Courage season
On September 21, the Courage clinched their third consecutive Shield with a 3–0 victory over the Utah Royals.


2019 North Carolina Courage season
On October 27, the Courage defeated the Chicago Red Stars 4–0 to win their second consecutive NWSL Championship.


2019 North Carolina Courage season, Team, First-team roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 North Carolina Courage season, Competitions, International friendlies
As defending 2018 NWSL champions and defending 2018 Women's ICC champions, the Courage were selected to participate in and host the 2019 Women's International Champions Cup. They are scheduled to play English side Manchester City in the semi-final round.


2019 North Carolina Education Lottery 200
The 2019 North Carolina Education Lottery 200 was a NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race held on May 17, 2019, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 134 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the eighth race of the 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series season.


2019 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Background, Track
The race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is located in Concord, North Carolina. The speedway complex includes a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval track, as well as a dragstrip and a dirt track. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR, as many race teams are based in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI), with Marcus G. Smith serving as track president.


2019 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Practice, First practice
Sheldon Creed was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 29.742 seconds and a speed of 181.561 mph (292.194 km/h).


2019 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Practice, Final practice
Brennan Poole was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.948 seconds and a speed of 180.313 mph (290.186 km/h).


2019 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Qualifying
Matt Crafton scored the pole for the race with a time of 30.145 seconds and a speed of 179.134 mph (288.288 km/h).


2019 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Race, Summary
Matt Crafton began on pole, but was quickly overtaken by Todd Gilliland and Ben Rhodes. Natalie Decker made contact with the wall early in the race, damaging the right side of her truck and bringing out the first caution. Kyle Busch would lead most of Stage 1 but give up the win after pitting with 5 laps to go in the stage. Crafton won the stage after passing and battling Gilliland for the lead.


2019 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Race, Summary
When Stage 2 started, Busch quickly overtook Ross Chastain and dominated, staying out when a caution occurred with 56 laps remaining due to Gus Dean spinning out and collecting Korbin Forrister and Angela Ruch. When another caution followed soon after due to debris on the track, Busch pitted and lost the lead.


2019 North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Race, Summary
Busch would chase and overtake Ben Rhodes and Johnny Sauter with 39 laps to go, ultimately winning the race as Sauter failed to keep up speed on the restart and held back some of the field. This was Busch's last truck race of 2019, making him undefeated in the season.


2019 North Carolina FC season
The 2019 North Carolina FC season was the club's 13th season of existence. The 2018 season was the club's first in the USL, having left the NASL at the end of the 2017 season. For the fourth time in history and the first time since 2009, North Carolina won the 2018 Southern Derby, a fan-based U.S. professional soccer cup competition between North Carolina, Charleston Battery, and Charlotte Independence. North Carolina finished the regular season in 9th place with 47 points, missing out on the playoffs by 2 points to Nashville. The 2019 season was the first under new coach Dave Sarachan who replaced Colin Clarke.


2019 North Carolina FC season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup
As a member of the USL Championship, North Carolina FC entered the tournament in the second round.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team
The 2019 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season. Head coach Mike Fox is in his 21st year coaching the Tar Heels. They play their home games at Bryson Field at Boshamer Stadium and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 2019 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a member of Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Led by head coach Mack Brown, in the first season of his second stint at North Carolina and his 11th overall season, the team played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The Tar Heels finished the season 7–6 overall and 4–4 in ACC play to tied for third place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Military Bowl, where they defeated Temple.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll
In the preseason ACC media poll, North Carolina was predicted to finish in sixth in the Coastal Division.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Schedule
The game against Wake Forest, a fellow member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, was played as a non-conference game and did not count in the league standings. This was done because the two rivals otherwise only play once every six years due to conference divisional alignment.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Game summaries, at Virginia Tech
Starting with the 2019 season, every overtime period starting with the fifth overtime consists solely of one two-point attempt per team from the three yard line.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team
The 2019 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2019 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 73rd season of the university fielding a program. The Tar Heels were led by 9th year head coach Carlos Somoano.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team, Background
The 2018 North Carolina men's soccer team finished the season with a 14–3–1 overall record and a 6–1–0 ACC record. The Tar Heels were seeded second–overall in the 2018 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament. The Tar Heels were upset in the Final by the fourth seed Louisville. The Tar Heels earned an at-large bid into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. As the fifth-overall seed in the tournament, the Tar Heels were upset in the second round by James Madison.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team, Background
At the end of the season, one Tar Heels men's soccer player was selected in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft: John Nelson.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team, Squad, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team
The 2019 North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2019 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. It was the 43rd season of the university fielding a program. The Tar Heels were led by 43rd year head coach Anson Dorrance.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team
The Tar Heels finished the season 24–2–1, 8–0–1 in ACC play to finish in first place. As the first seed in the ACC Tournament, they defeated Notre Dame, NC State, and Virginia in order to be crowned champions. They received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated Belmont, Colorado, Michigan, USC, and Washington State before losing to Stanford in the Finals.


2019 North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team, Squad, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 North Carolina's 3rd congressional district special election
A special election was held on September 10th, 2019 to fill the vacancy in North Carolina's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for the remainder of the 116th United States Congress. Walter B. Jones Jr., the incumbent representative, died on February 10, 2019.


2019 North Carolina's 3rd congressional district special election
Parties held primaries to decide their nominees. In order to win a party nomination outright, under current state law, a candidate must exceed 30% of the vote to avoid a runoff (presuming that the second-place finisher calls for that runoff). There must be 30 days of absentee voting prior to each election, according to state law. Filing began on March 4 and ended March 8, as set by Governor Roy Cooper. Twenty-six candidates filed with the State Board of Elections by the filing deadline: 17 Republicans, 6 Democrats, 2 Libertarians, and 1 Constitution Party candidate. All candidates filed are affiliated with a political party. Five candidates advanced after the first primary elections: two Republicans, one Democrat, one Libertarian, and one Constitution Party candidate.


2019 North Carolina's 3rd congressional district special election
Cooper set the primary date of April 30, in which the Democrats selected Allen M. Thomas, Libertarians selected Tim Harris, and in the Constitution Party primary businessman Greg Holt won by default, but no Republican achieved 30% of the vote. Voting for the Republican primary runoff occurred on Tuesday, July 9, between two candidates that are both physicians, Greg Murphy and Joan Perry. Approximately 70 minutes after polls closed, Murphy was declared the winner by the Associated Press.


2019 North Carolina's 3rd congressional district special election
The general election was held on September 10, 2019. Murphy won the seat.


2019 North Carolina's 3rd congressional district special election
With the decision by the State Board of Elections to hold a new election to redo the 2018 U.S. House election in North Carolina's 9th district, this became one of two congressional district special elections in North Carolina in 2019, the other being the 9th district's special election held on the same day. This was the first time two U.S. House special elections were held in the same state on the same day (not on Election Day) since the May 3, 2008, elections in Louisiana's 1st district and 6th district.


2019 North Carolina's 3rd congressional district special election, General election
During the early voting period for this election, Hurricane Dorian battered the eastern coast of the United States, necessitating early voting to be halted in several counties on the Outer Banks until the storm had passed. This also happened in the election for North Carolina's 9th congressional district.


2019 North Carolina's 3rd congressional district special election, General election, Results
Despite the clear victory, 61.7% is the lowest Republican vote share in this district since 2012.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election
A special election was held on September 10, 2019, to fill the vacancy in North Carolina's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for the remainder of the 116th United States Congress. The seat had been vacant since the opening of the 116th Congress, following the refusal of the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify the results of the November 2018 election in the district due to allegations of electoral fraud. Because of the allegations, the race received substantial national attention.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election
In the original election, Mark Harris, a Republican, led Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in the unofficial returns for the 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election. However, allegations of fraud in the election prevented its certification. After hearing evidence, including testimony from Harris himself and his own son, the board unanimously voted on February 21 to call a new election.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election
The primary was held on May 14, 2019 and the general election was held on September 10. A total of 10 Republican candidates qualified for the primary. Dan McCready, the Democratic Party nominee in the 2018 election, ran again and faced no primary opposition. Among Republicans, neither Harris nor Robert Pittenger, the incumbent whom Harris defeated in the 2018 primary election, filed to run.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election
After winning the Republican primary by a large margin, Dan Bishop narrowly won the general election, garnering 50.7% of the vote to McCready's 48.7%.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election, Background
The 2018 congressional district election ended with Republican Mark Harris leading Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes, the closest race in the district in over sixty years. While McCready had conceded defeat, the North Carolina Democratic Party alleged that electoral fraud had taken place, and filed affidavits with the North Carolina State Board of Elections alleging that independent contractors working on behalf of Harris had illegally collected absentee ballots (ballot harvesting). The North Carolina Board of Elections voted unanimously not to certify the election and later ordered an evidentiary hearing to be held.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election, Background
The board also opened an investigation around the activities of Leslie McCrae Dowless, a campaign operative with felony fraud and perjury convictions, who was hired by the Harris campaign. Incoming Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced that the United States House of Representatives would not seat Harris until the fraud investigation had been completed.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election, Background
After a delay caused by restructuring of the Board of Elections and delayed appointment of members by Republican allies of Harris, the board set hearings to begin on February 18, 2019. On that day the regulator reported that it had found evidence of "a coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme" that may have involved more than 1,000 ballots or ballot request forms. On February 20, Harris's son, John Harris, a federal prosecutor in North Carolina, testified to the election board that he had repeatedly warned his father not to hire Dowless because Dowless appeared to have previously engaged in illegal tactics to win votes.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election, Background
On February 21, Harris announced that "the public's confidence in the ninth district seat general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted." The Board of Elections voted unanimously to call a special election, with a primary if necessary on May 14, to fill the vacancy. This was the first House of Representatives election to require a do-over since 1974.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election, Background
Leslie McCrae Dowless was indicted and arrested on February 27, 2019. He faced felony charges of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and two possession of absentee ballots charges. In July 2019, the Wake County district attorney also announced charges against Lisa Britt, Ginger S. Eason, Woody D. Hester, James Singletary, Jessica Dowless and Kelly Hendrix, and additional charges against Leslie McCrae Dowless.


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election, General election
Dan McCready, the Democratic candidate, ran on a platform of cutting taxes on the middle class, ending gerrymandering, renegotiating trade deals, and reducing military interventions overseas. His platform also supports protecting Social Security and Medicare, overturning Citizens United, and granting full federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe. Republican candidate Dan Bishop is best known for his opposition to LGBT rights, particularly the drafting of North Carolina's "Bathroom Bill".


2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election, General election
During the early voting period for this election, Hurricane Dorian battered the eastern coast of the United States, necessitating early voting to be halted in several counties on the Outer Banks and elsewhere on the coast until the storm had passed.


2019 North Central Cardinals football team
The 2019 North Central Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented North Central College in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) during the 2019 NCAA Division III football season. In their fifth year under head coach Jeff Thorne, the team compiled a 14–1 record (8–1 against conference opponents) and finished second out of ten teams in the CCIW. The team advanced to the NCAA Division III playoffs and defeated Wisconsin–Whitewater, 41–14, in the 2019 Stagg Bowl.


2019 North Central Cardinals football team
The team played its home games at Benedetti–Wehrli Stadium in Naperville, Illinois.


2019 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team
The 2019 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team represented the University of North Dakota during the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by sixth-year head coach Bubba Schweigert, they played their home games at the Alerus Center. They finished the season 7–5. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they would lose to Nicholls in the first round.


2019 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team
The Fighting Hawks left the Big Sky Conference in 2018 to join the non-football Summit League, with the football program joining the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2020. Although being classified as an independent for football in 2018 and 2019, they continued to play a full Big Sky schedule, and their games counted in the conference standings for their opponents. The Fighting Hawks were ineligible to win the conference championship.


2019 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team, Previous season
The Fighting Hawks finished the 2018 season with a record of 6–5.


2019 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team, FCS Playoffs
The Fighting Hawks were selected for the postseason tournament, with a first-round pairing against Nicholls.


2019 North Dakota State Bison football team
The 2019 North Dakota State Bison football team represented North Dakota State University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Matt Entz. The team played in the Fargodome in Fargo, North Dakota, for the 27th season as members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC). They entered the season as defending national champions, having won seven of the prior eight FCS titles. In 2019, the Bison finished the regular season 12–0, the second consecutive undefeated Bison season, and won their ninth consecutive MVFC title.


2019 North Dakota State Bison football team
They received an automatic qualifying bid to the FCS playoff tournament and were seeded as the No. 1 team. The Bison then went 4–0 in the FCS playoffs to finish 16–0 as FCS champions, becoming the first team at any level of college football to finish a season 16–0 since Yale in 1894. They also extended their FCS-record winning streak to 37 games.


2019 North Dakota State Bison football team, Previous season
In 2018, the Bison finished the regular season 11–0, the first undefeated Bison season since the 2013 campaign, and won their 9th consecutive MVFC Title. They received an automatic qualifying bid to the FCS Playoff Tournament and were seeded as the No. 1 Team. The Bison then went 4–0 in the FCS playoffs to finish 15–0 and FCS Champions.


2019 North Dakota State Bison football team, Preseason, MVFC poll
In the MVFC preseason poll released on July 29, 2019, the Bison were predicted to finish in first place.


2019 North Dakota State Bison football team, Preseason, Preseason All–MVFC team
The Bison had six players selected to the preseason all-MVFC team.


2019 North Dakota State Bison football team, FCS Playoffs
The Bison entered the postseason tournament as the number one seed, with a first-round bye.


2019 North Devon District Council election
The 2019 North Devon District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of North Devon District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The whole council was up for election on new boundaries.


2019 North Devon District Council election, Ward Results, Chittlehampton
The election in Chittlehampton ward (1 councillor) was postponed due to the death of independent candidate Walter White.


2019 North District Council election
The 2019 North District Council election was held on 24 November 2015 to elect all 18 elected members to the 20-member North District Council of Hong Kong.


2019 North District Council election
The pro-democrats took control of the council by taking 15 seats in a historic landslide victory amid the massive pro-democracy protests. The pro-Beijing parties almost lost all their seats, retaining only three seats with DAB's Lau Kwok-fan also being unseated.


2019 North East Derbyshire District Council election
The 2019 North East Derbyshire District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of North East Derbyshire District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The whole council was up for election on new boundaries. The Conservatives gained control of the council from the Labour Party for the first time ever.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election
The 2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of North East Lincolnshire Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up
After the 2018 local election, the  political make up of the council was as follows:


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up
The Conservatives won a majority on the council for the first time since its creation in 1996. Some of the authority's predecessors had previously had Conservative majorities: Great Grimsby Borough Council (1976-1979) and Humberside County Council (1977-1981), though Cleethorpes Borough Council had not. The Conservative gains in the five wards were essentially a repeat of the previous year: taking Yarborough, Freshney, Croft Baker and Immingham from Labour, as well as Park from the Liberal Democrats.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up
UKIP, who had been slowly wiped out after losing councillors through defections to the Conservatives after the EU referendum had lost their remaining "loyal" councillors in 2018, though Jane Bramley did regain a seat from Labour in South ward, where two seats were thought following the resignation of former council leader Ray Oxby.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up
The Green Party, who had ran candidates in most but not all wards in 2018, only ran one candidate - Loyd Emmerson, who had been their general election candidate in Cleethorpes in 2017 (and would stand for them in Great Grimsby in 2019), stood in South ward.]


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up
In the run up to these elections, Terry Walker (then a Labour councillor for East Marsh and deputy mayor of the authority) defected to the Liberal Democrats and would successfully retain his seat in the ward for them, which resulted in him being elected the mayor of the authority in a vote by councillors. Other changes saw Ray Oxby unexpectedly resign as council leader and as a councillor for South ward in March 2019, which meant two seats were fought in the ward much like Immingham the year before.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Council make up
Longstanding councillors Andrew De Freitas from the Lib Dems and Melanie Dickerson from the Conservatives retired at these elections. De Freitas' son David stood as his party's candidate in Park ward, which he failed to retain, whilst former UKIP councillor Henry Hudson who had stood down last year in Scartho ward returned to the Conservatives, for whom he had been a candidate for in 2008, to stand in Wolds to succeed Dickerson.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Croft Baker
Note: Incumbent Labour councillor Annie Darby stood down at this election.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, East Marsh
Note: In the months prior to this election, Walker defected from Labour to the Liberal Democrats.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Freshney
Notes: Changes are compared with the May 2018 local elections, rather than the by-election in July 2018 where Mill had won the seat. Furneaux had previously been a UKIP candidate in Yarborough in 2015, but had stood for the Conservatives before that in Park in 2014.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Haverstoe
Notes: Following the retirement of Andrew De Freitas, Brookes is now the only councillor on the authority to have been elected onto it continuously since the inaugural elections in 1995. Bailey is a former Liberal Democrat councillor for Yarborough from 2009 to 2012.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Heneage
Notes: Stockton is a former councillor for this ward from 2014 to 2018.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Immingham
Note: Swinburn is a former councillor for this ward from 2006 to 2010. She narrowly missed out on gaining this seat the previous year from Bolton, by a mere 3 votes after several recounts.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Park
Note: Barrow is a former councillor who represented this ward from 2012 to 2016. De Freitas is the son of incumbent councillor Andrew De Freitas who retired at this election on health grounds.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Sidney Sussex
Notes: This was the only ward in the Cleethorpes constituency where UKIP stood a candidate, as well as the only one Labour won. The incumbent, Hazel Chase, had left Labour mid-term and stood down at this election. She endorsed Green in the election.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, South
Note 1: There was several recounts of the result, because of the closeness between Goodwin and Bramley, which was called by UKIP who given the closeness of the result had hoped Bramley may have overtaken Goodwin for the four year seat. In the end, after conceding, Goodwin won the four year term of office, while Bramley won the one year - which has since been extended due to the cancellation of the 2020 local elections.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, South
Note 2: The Conservatives only fielded one candidate, even though two seats were available. It is unknown as to why this was the case. Batson, their party's candidate, had stood here in the 2016 by-election and 2018 local elections, as well as in 2015 albeit for UKIP.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, South
Note 3: Hill has previously stood here in 2006, 2014 and 2018 as an Independent, as well as for the Liberal Democrats (in Sidney Sussex, 2008; and Immingham, 2010) and the Conservatives (in Immingham, 2015; and Yarborough, 2016).


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, South
Note 4: Rodwell is husband of Labour councillor for Sidney Sussex ward Debbie Rodwell. He unsuccessfully fought Wolds in 2018.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, West March
Note: Barker is a former councillor for this ward from 1999 to 2011. This was the first occasion regular Independent candidate (and other former councillor) for this ward Keith Watkin had not stood here since losing his seat in 2010.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Wolds
Note: Hudson is a former UKIP councillor for Scartho ward who had stood down in 2018. He had previously been a Conservative member and candidate for Freshney in 2008.


2019 North East Lincolnshire Council election, Ward results, Yarborough
Note: Barlow had previously stood as a TUSC candidate for this ward in 2018. This was the first occasion UKIP did not field a candidate in the ward since the March 2009 by-election


2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team
The 2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team will represented North Greenville University during the 2019 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Jeff Farrington. The Crusaders played their home games at Younts Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference.


2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll
On August 1, 2019, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Crusaders predicted to finish in 7th place in the conference.


2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team
The Crusaders had only one player selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.


2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Schedule
North Greenville 2019 football schedule consists of five home and five away games in the regular season. The Crusaders will host GSC foes Delta State, Florida Tech, Valdosta State, and West Georgia, and will travel to Mississippi College, Shorter, West Alabama, and West Florida.


2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Schedule
The Crusaders will host one of the two non-conference games against Newberry from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC), and will travel to Western Carolina from the Southern Conference.


2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team, Schedule
Two of the ten games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.


2019 North Hertfordshire District Council election
The 2019 North Hertforshire District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect 16 of the 49 members of North Hertfordshire District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections around the country. Heading into the election, the Conservative Party held a 4-seat majority. Although they still had 6 seats more than any other party after the result of the election, they lost their majority.


2019 North Hertfordshire District Council election, Summary Result, Where elections took place
The following table shows a summary of the results where elections took place.


2019 North Hertfordshire District Council election, Summary Result, Overall composition of district council
The following shows the composition and change of the district council overall as a result of the elections.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was the most active North Indian Ocean cyclone season on record, in terms of cyclonic storms, however the 1992 season was more active according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The season featured 12 depressions, 11 deep depressions, 8 cyclonic storms, 6 severe cyclonic storms, 6 very severe cyclonic storms, 3 extremely severe cyclonic storms, and 1 super cyclonic storm, Kyarr, the first since Cyclone Gonu in 2007. Additionally, it was also the third-costliest season recorded in the North Indian Ocean, only behind the 2020 and 2008 seasons.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The season's first named storm, Pabuk, entered the basin on January 4, becoming the earliest-forming cyclonic storm of the North Indian Ocean on record. The second cyclone of the season, Cyclone Fani, was the strongest tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal by 3-minute maximum sustained wind speed and minimum barometric pressure since the 1999 Odisha cyclone, while being equal in terms of maximum 3-minute sustained wind speed to 2007's Sidr and 2013's Phailin. Further activity occurred in October, and in the latter part of that month, the first and only super cyclonic storm of the 2010s, Kyarr, formed.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The scope of this article is limited to the Indian Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere, east of the Horn of Africa and west of the Malay Peninsula. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean — the Arabian Sea to the west of the Indian subcontinent, abbreviated ARB by the India Meteorological Department (IMD); and the Bay of Bengal to the east, abbreviated BOB by the IMD.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) and the National Meteorological Center of CMA (NMC) unofficially release full advisories. On average, three to four cyclonic storms form in this basin every season.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
The season had eight cyclonic storms, six very severe cyclonic storms and one super cyclonic storm, becoming exceptionally active. Amid a weak El Niño event, the season's first named storm, Pabuk, entered the basin on January 4, becoming the earliest-forming cyclonic storm of the North Indian Ocean on record, tying with the 2014 season. The second cyclonic storm of the season, Fani, formed on April 26. Fani became an extremely severe cyclonic storm on April 30, reaching the equivalent of Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson scale, then made landfall in India killing 89 people between Odisha and Bangladesh; Fani caused $8.1 billion in damage.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
In early June, a strong pulse of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) led to the development of the third cyclonic storm, Vayu, which formed June 10 in the Arabian Sea near the Maldives. The storm subsequently intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm on June 12, after moving northwestward towards northwestern India and Pakistan. No tropical cyclones formed in the month of July. Deep Depression BOB 03 formed on August 7 before impacting East India and Bangladesh. In late September, Deep Depression ARB 02 formed near Gujarat and intensified into the fourth cyclonic storm of the season, Hikaa.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
Cyclonic Storm Kyarr formed on October 24 and three days later became the first super cyclonic storm since Cyclone Gonu in 2007. The sixth cyclonic storm and a record-breaking fifth very severe cyclonic storm, Cyclone Maha, formed on October 30 after Kyarr dissipated on November 1. Soon after, on 6th November the remnants of Severe Tropical Storm Matmo crossed the Southeast Asia overland and again consolidated into a depression. It further rapidly intensified to very severe Bulbul. Three more Deep Depressions formed in Arabian Sea in quick succession early in the month of December, out of which, one strengthened into the eighth cyclone of the season, Cyclone Pawan, which made landfall in Somalia on December 6.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
The high amount of activity in the Arabian Sea was related to the strongest Indian Ocean Dipole in 60 years, in which the waters are warmer in the western Indian Ocean than the eastern.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
Tropical cyclones have been recorded in the North Indian Ocean since 1891. The 2019 season was the first since 1902 that experienced the development of six severe cyclonic storms out of eight cyclonic storms; in 1902, five cyclonic storms formed and four of them became severe cyclonic storms. The season has also produced the most accumulated cyclone energy in this basin on record.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Pabuk
Pabuk originated in a low pressure area which formed in the South China Sea on December 28, which later became a depression on December 31. On January 1 at 06:00 UTC, it became a tropical storm with JMA naming it "Pabuk". It maintained its intensity until making landfall over the Pak Phanang District of Thailand on January 4 at 05:40 UTC. On the morning of January 5, it entered the basin, and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) began giving advisories to the system. As it entered the basin, it was designated as "Cyclonic Storm Pabuk" by the IMD. Pabuk became a deep depression at 06:00 UTC the next day, because of high wind shear and a weak MJO. It was further downgraded to a depression at 00:00 UTC on January 7, because of similar unfavorable conditions. The next day, it weakened into a well-marked low pressure area.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Pabuk
Pabuk caused gusty winds and heavy rainfall over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with no significant damage reported in the island. However, in Thailand it claimed the lives of eight people and caused an estimated US$156 million in property damage.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani
On April 26, a depression formed to the west of Sumatra, with the IMD giving the storm the identifier BOB 02. The system slowly organized while curving towards the northeast. On April 27, at 00:00 UTC, the IMD upgraded the system to a deep depression. Later that day, the system intensified into Cyclonic Storm Fani, while shifting to the northwest. System development proceeded very slowly for several days, with the cyclone struggling to intensify against the influence of moderate vertical wind shear.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani
At 12:00 UTC on 29 April, Fani was upgraded to a severe cyclonic storm, with the system beginning to undergo rapid intensification. Fani continued rapidly intensifying, becoming an extremely severe cyclonic storm at 17:00 UTC on April 30. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) upgraded the system to a Category 4 tropical cyclone on the Saffir–Simpson scale at 06:00 UTC on May 2, following which, rapid intensification resumed.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani
The pressure decreased to 932 hPa (27.52 inHg), three-minute sustained winds increased to 215 kilometres per hour (134 mph), and one-minute sustained winds to 280 kilometres per hour (170 mph), making the system the equivalent of a Category 5 major hurricane. On May 3, at 02:30 UTC (8:00 a.m. IST) Fani made landfall on Puri, in Odisha, weakening to a Category 1-equivalent very severe cyclonic storm soon after landfall, subsequently weakening to a cyclonic storm several hours later. On May 4, Fani weakened into a deep depression and moved into Bangladesh. Later that day, Fani degenerated into a well-marked remnant low before dissipating the next day.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Vayu
In early June, a strong pulse of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) tracked eastwards into the tropical Indian Ocean, leading to increased cloudiness and rainfall across the region. On June 9, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) noted the development of a low-pressure area over the southeastern Arabian Sea, to the north of the Maldives. Early on June 10, a depression formed in the Arabian Sea, just northwest of the Maldives, and the IMD gave the storm the identifier ARB 01.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Vayu
As the system moved northward, it gradually strengthened, becoming a deep depression, before intensifying further into Cyclonic Storm Vayu later that day. After being upgraded by the IMD to a severe cyclonic storm on June 11, and concurrently by the JTWC to a Category 1 tropical cyclone on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS), the system began a period of rapid intensification. Vayu strengthened into a very severe cyclonic storm soon afterward, and became a Category 2-equivalent very severe cyclonic storm on June 12.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Vayu
On June 13, the influence of a strengthening subtropical ridge over Saudi Arabia caused Vayu to gradually slow down and turn to the west, as it approached the coastline of the state of Gujarat in northwestern India. Later that day, at 06:00 UTC, Vayu reached its peak intensity as a very severe tropical cyclone, with three-minute sustained winds of 150 kilometres per hour (93 mph) and a minimum pressure of 970 hPa (28.64 inHg). On June 14, Vayu began to weaken, as it tracked slowly westward, away from the Gujarat coastline due to strong wind shear.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Vayu
On June 16, an approaching mid-latitude trough weakened the areas of high pressure centered to the west and northeast, which recurved Vayu sharply to the northeast. Upon weakening further to a cyclonic storm, strong low-level southwesterly flow caused the system to accelerate northeastwards through the break in the blocking high-pressure ridge, back towards the Gujarat coast. At 03:00 UTC on 17 June, Vayu weakened into a deep depression, before weakening further to a depression six hours later. Soon afterward, Vayu weakened into a well-marked remnant low, just off the coast of Gujarat. Very early on June 18, Vayu's remnants crossed over the Gujarat coast and moved inland for another day, before dissipating on June 19.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 03
On August 6, a depression formed over the northwestern Bay of Bengal, with the IMD giving the storm the identifier BOB 03. Soon afterward, the system intensified into a deep depression, while approaching the north Odisha coastline. On August 7, around 08:00–09:00 UTC, the deep depression made landfall along the north Odisha-West Bengal coastline. Early on August 11, it dissipated.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 03
Heavy rains battered much of Odisha, with accumulations peaking at 382.6 mm (15.06 in) in Lanjigarh. Flooding across the state killed three people, left two missing, and affected 130,000 others. A total of 2,081 homes suffered damage, and 14,332 people required evacuation.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Hikaa
A depression formed in the Arabian Sea and soon intensified into a cyclonic storm and was named Hikaa. The system gradually intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and then reached its peak intensity as a very severe cyclonic storm with 85 mph 3-min sustained wind speeds. Hikaa weakened due to dry air intrusions and made landfall on Oman as a severe tropical cyclone. Hikaa quickly weakened after moving inland and later dissipated.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Hikaa
One person went missing after his boat sank off Duqm. Off the Omani coast, a boat carried 11 Indian fishermen sank due to Cyclone Hikaa. As of October 17, six of them were confirmed dead, and the other five remained missing.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Land Depression 01
On September 28, a low pressure area formed on the adjoining areas of Saurashtra and Kutch in the state of Gujarat. The low pressure area later concentrated into a depression and moved close to Kandla at 12:00 UTC, next day. It moved east-northeastwards, towards eastern Rajasthan maintained its intensity until on October 1, it weakened into a low pressure area.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Land Depression 01
The system caused heavy to very heavy rainfall in isolated areas of Gujarat, mostly region of Saurashtra and Kutch, and east Rajasthan on September 29. On September 30, heavy rainfall in isolated areas were reported in Gujarat. Isolated places of Saurashtra and Kutch experienced very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall. On October 1, heavy to very heavy rainfall were reported in few places of Gujarat, with isolated regions experiencing extremely heavy rainfall. Heavy rainfall were also reported in Saurashtra and Kutch of Gujarat, eastern Rajasthan and western Madhya Pradesh.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Super Cyclonic Storm Kyarr
A depression formed in the Arabian Sea on October 24, with IMD giving it the identifier ARB 03, later intensifying into a deep depression before JTWC recognized it as Tropical Cyclone 04A. It further intensified and became a cyclonic storm, receiving the name Kyarr from IMD as the fifth cyclonic storm of the season. On October 25, owing to high sea surface temperatures, low shear and a moist environment, Kyarr began a period of rapid intensification and strengthened into a very severe cyclonic storm. Three hours later, Kyarr became an extremely severe cyclonic storm.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Super Cyclonic Storm Kyarr
Early on October 27, Kyarr intensified into a super cyclonic storm, becoming the first one in the basin since Gonu in 2007. The system continued to intensify, attaining maximum three-minute sustained winds of 240 kilometres per hour (150 mph) and a minimum barometric pressure of 922 hPa (27.23 inHg),  Kyarr began slowly weakening on October 29 as it headed southwest towards the direction of Somalia. Kyarr dissipated off the coast of Somalia on November 1.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Super Cyclonic Storm Kyarr
Despite the immense strength of the storm, and many countries being affected by high tides and storm surges, there were no reported fatalities in Socotra, though there were 5 people reported dead in Karnataka, India, due to heavy rains.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Maha
A well-marked low-pressure area strengthened into a depression on October 30. The depression continued strengthening as it entered a more favorable environment and was upgraded into a Cyclonic Storm on November 1. Maha continued to intensify, fluctuating in intensity for the next 2 days as it moved along the Indian coast, producing rough surf and moderate coastal flooding along the way before becoming a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm on November 3 and then into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm the next day as it moved parallel to the Indian coast.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Maha
Maha then began to stall in the Arabian Sea as it reached peak intensity due to a lack of steering currents. Upwelling began to take its toll on the storm, and it weakened back to a Cyclonic Storm as it approached Gujarat. It then made landfall near Gujarat as a tropical depression and quickly weakened afterwards.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Maha
In preparation of Maha's impacts, orange alert was issued in four districts of Kerala.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Bulbul
On November 5, the remnants of Severe Tropical Storm Matmo traversed into the Bay of Bengal and developed into Cyclonic Storm Bulbul. The system quickly intensified into a Severe Cyclonic Storm over the next day. As it continued northward, it then strengthened into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm as the IMD issued coastal warnings for West Bengal.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Bulbul
Bulbul then underwent rapid intensification, becoming a very severe cyclonic storm on November 8.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Bulbul
It was the second Severe Cyclonic Storm to make landfall in West Bengal after Cyclone Aila. The storm produced heavy rain over many parts of West Bengal with Digha receiving 98 mm, Kolkata receiving 101 mm, Halisahar recording 95 mm and Dumdum receiving 90 mm of rain. Strong winds were also reported in many parts of South Bengal. Strong winds of 75 km/h also battered the Kolkata by uprooting many trees. One youth was killed due to uprooting of trees before the storm made landfall.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Pawan
On December 2, a depression formed over the southwestern Arabian Sea, east of Somalia. It strengthened into a cyclonic storm on December 4 owing to favorable conditions in the surrounding area, earning the name Pawan. The system continued north, gaining a little more strength, and then turned west the following day, Pawan struggled to maintain its structure due to a high amount of wind shear, but continued to move west towards Somalia. This wind shear caused Pawan's convection to briefly dissipate, but it soon regenerated. Pawan eventually made landfall in the Puntland region of Somalia, just south of Eyl, late on December 6, bringing heavy rain and mudslides to the surrounding areas. It then degenerated into a well-marked low-pressure area inland on December 7.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Pawan
Pawan killed six people in Somalia. Rainfall accumulations brought by Pawan reached up to 3 inches in Somalia, an unusually large amount of rain for December, resulting in flash flooding in the region. Two vehicles were swept away by torrential rain generated by the storm in Bosaso, while two boats capsized off the coast of Eyl due to rough surf. Pawan was the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in Somalia since Cyclone Sagar in 2018.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression ARB 07
On December 3, a depression formed over the east-central Arabian Sea, with the IMD marking it as Depression ARB 07. It gradually strengthened into a deep depression soon after. Initial forecasts expected the system to intensify into a cyclonic storm, however, a high amount of wind shear caused it to weaken substantially, and it weakened into a low-pressure area on December 5, west of the Indian coast.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression ARB 07
Heavy rains associated with the depression caused extensive flooding in Tamil Nadu. Twenty-four-hour accumulations exceeded 150 mm (5.9 in) in many areas, including 190 mm (7.5 in) in Sathankulam. Officials issued extreme rainfall warnings for six districts and more than 21,500 trained volunteers were placed on standby. The Paravanar River topped its banks, flooding an estimated 10,000 homes. A total of 1,305 huts and 465 homes were destroyed across Tamil Nadu. During then night of December 2, three homes collapsed in Mettupalayam killing 17 occupants. Eight other people died in rain-related incidents.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression ARB 08
On December 7, a low pressure area formed over the Equatorial Indian Ocean and the adjoining east-central Arabian Sea. With warm sea surface temperature and high tropical cyclone heat potential, it further developed into a well-marked low pressure system on December 8. Under moderate wind shear, and high sea-surface temperature, it concentrated into a depression with IMD designated as ARB 08 at 09:00 UTC on same day. Satellite imagery indicated an increase of organisation of clouds and an increase of convection around the system center.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression ARB 08
On December 9, at 00:00 UTC, it further intensified into a deep depression over southwest Arabian Sea, with further organisation of clouds and intense convection around the center. However tropical cyclone heat potential decreased and sea surface temperature also decreased with vertical wind shear started to increase, causing the system to weakened into a depression at 12:00 UTC in December 9. The wind shear have hampered the system and clouds started to disorganise. Similar unfavourable condition further weakened the system and at 06:00 UTC on December 10, IMD downgraded the system to a well-marked low pressure system over southwestern Arabian Sea, with satellite imagery showing clouds being further disorganised.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Storm names
Within this basin, a tropical cyclone is assigned a name when it is judged to have reached Cyclonic Storm intensity with winds of 65 kilometres per hour (40 mph). The names were selected by members of the ESCAP/WMO Panel on Tropical Cyclones between 2000 and May 2004, before the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in New Delhi started to assign names in September 2004. There is no retirement of tropical cyclone names in this basin as the list of names is only scheduled to be used once before a new list of names is drawn up. Should a named tropical cyclone move into the basin from the Western Pacific, it will retain its original name. The next eight available names from the List of North Indian Ocean storm names are below.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Storm names
Pabuk entered the basin from the Gulf of Thailand as a cyclonic storm; its name was assigned by the Japan Meteorological Agency.


2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season effects
This is a table of all storms in the 2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. It mentions all of the season's storms and their names, duration, peak intensities (according to the IMD storm scale), damage, and death totals. Damage and death totals include the damage and deaths caused when that storm was a precursor wave or extratropical low, and all of the damage figures are in 2019 USD.


2019 North Kesteven District Council election
The 2019 North Kesteven District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of North Kesteven District Council in Lincolnshire, England. This was held on the same day as other local elections.


2019 North Kesteven District Council election, By-Elections
A by-election was held in Billinghay, Martin and North Kyme on 13th June 2019. This was because only one candidate had been nominated for the 2-member ward at the May elections, leaving a vacancy to be filled.


2019 North Korean local elections
Elections to the provincial, county (district) and city (municipal) people's assemblies in North Korea were held on 21 July 2019.


2019 North Korean local elections, Preparations
On 10 June 2019, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly released a report announcing an election for the local people's committees scheduled for 21 July 2019.


2019 North Korean local elections, Preparations
On 13 June, the SPA Presidium issued Decision No. 7 which organized a central election guidance committee for the local people's assembly elections that consisted of Thae Hyong-chol as chairman, Kim Phyong-hae as vice-chairman, Jong Yong-guk as secretary, and Choe Pu-il, Kim Yong-ho, Pak Chol-min, Jo Yong-gil, Kim Chang-yop, and Jang Chun-sil as members.


2019 North Korean local elections, Preparations
On 22 June, Rodong Sinmun reported that constituencies and sub-constituencies for the election have been organized.


2019 North Korean local elections, Preparations
On 24 June, Rodong Sinmun reported that constituency and sub-constituency election committees have been organized.


2019 North Korean local elections, Preparations
On 7 July, Rodong Sinmun reported that constituency and sub-constituency election committees have displayed lists of eligible voters for the election.


2019 North Korean local elections, Preparations
On 20 July, Rodong Sinmun reported that the nomination and registration of candidates has been completed on 17 July, and that profiles of candidates in the election have been displayed at all constituencies, and polling stations have been set up.


2019 North Korean local elections, Election day
Voting began at 9:00 AM local time, with the Central Election Guidance Committee(중앙선거지도위원회) reporting that the voter turnout reached 72.07% by 12:00 PM local time.


2019 North Korean local elections, Election day
The Central Election Guidance Committee reported that the voter turnout reached 99.98% at the end of the voting.


2019 North Korean local elections, Election day
Kim Jong-un was reported to have cast his vote for Ju Song-ho and Jong Song-sik at Sub-Constituency No. 94 of Constituency No. 201 of South Hamgyong Province.


2019 North Korean local elections, Results
The Central Election Guidance Committee said in a report on 22 July that 27,876 local people's assembly deputies were elected with all of them receiving 100% of the vote.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election
The election of deputies to the 14th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) was held in North Korea on 10 March 2019. The elections were announced on 6 January 2019. With only one candidate on the ballot in each constituency, outside observers recognized it as a show election. 687 candidates for the DPRK deputies to the SPA were elected. Kim Jong-un did not stand for election, marking the first time that a North Korean leader did not participate as a candidate.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Preparations
On 8 January 2019, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) issued Decision No. 220, which announced the election of deputies to the 14th Supreme People's Assembly.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Preparations
This was followed three days later by the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly issuing Decision No. 221, which organized a central election committee for the election of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly that consists of Yang Hyong-sop as chairman, Kim Phyong-hae as vice chairman, Jong Yong-guk as secretary general, as well as Choe Pu-il, Kim Yong-dae, Kim Yong-ho, Pak Chol-min, Ju Yong-gil, Kim Chang-yop, Jang Chun-sil, Ri Tu-song, Pak Myong-chol and Ryo Jong-son as members.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Preparations
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on 29 January that the constituencies and sub-constituencies for the election of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly had been organized, and, on 3 February, reported that election committees had been organized in the constituencies and sub-constituencies. On 21 February, the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House produced posters urging voters to "further glorify socialism of our style on the strength of single-minded unity" and to "cement our revolutionary power as firm as a rock." On 24 February, the KCNA reported that sub-constituency committees have displayed lists of eligible voters for the election.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Preparations
On 25 February, the Rodong Sinmun published an editorial calling for elevated political enthusiasm and participation in the elections. The Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland issued a similar appeal and sought for the social and economic prosperity of the nation coupled with peaceful relations (and a reunification) with South Korea. On 2 March, the Korean Central Television broadcast similar slogans.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Preparations
On 4 March, the Rodong Sinmun published a commentary saying that the North Korean election system is "the most superior in the world."


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Preparations
On 7 March, the Central Election Committee reported that the nomination and registration of candidates has been completed. On 8 March, the KCNA reported that profiles of candidates in the election have been displayed at all constituencies, and polling stations have been set up.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Voting practices and procedures
The election is based on the principle of a single-seat, first-past-the-post system. The candidate with most votes wins the seat, even if he wins less than half of total valid votes (majority voting). According to outside observers, the proceedings are a show election. It is also believed that the legislature wields no influence on the state-policies and serves as a rubber-stamp to decisions taken by the party machinery.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Voting practices and procedures
Voting is mandatory, and choice of candidates is not offered. The voters are given a ballot paper with a single name and they are expected to drop it in the ballot box. Although voters are able to signify dissent by crossing the name off, or by not voting at all, analysts argue that such actions would be considered as an act of treason and incur the wrath of the secret police.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Election day
At 11:00, Kim Jong-un went to Sub-constituency No. 40 of Constituency No. 10 Kyogu located at the Kim Chaek University of Technology, and voted for the university's president Hong So-hon as deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Election day
At 12:00, the Central Election Committee reported that the voter turnout had reached 56.76 percent; turnout had reached 92.35% by 15:00.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Election day
At 18:00, the Central Election Committee reported that all of the voters except for those overseas or working at sea had participated in the election, and that the election results were being counted.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Results
The Central Election Committee reported on 12 March 2019 that the voter turnout for the election was at 99.99%, and that "unanimously" the voters cast their ballots in favor of the registered candidates. The report also included the names of the 687 elected deputies to the 14th Supreme People's Assembly.


2019 North Korean parliamentary election, Results
Kim Jong-un was not included in the list of elected deputies, which marks the first time that a North Korean leader did not participate as a candidate in the election of the Supreme People's Assembly.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit
The 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, commonly known as the Hanoi Summit, was a two-day summit meeting between North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. president Donald Trump, held at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, during February 27–28, 2019. It was the second meeting between the leaders of North Korea and the United States following their first meeting in Singapore the previous year.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit
On February 28, 2019, the White House announced that the summit was cut short and that no agreement was reached. Trump later clarified that it was due to North Korea's request to end all sanctions. The North Korean foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, asserted that the country only sought a partial lifting of the five United Nations sanctions placed on North Korea between 2016 and 2017.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Background
The first North Korea–United States summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump took place in June 2018 in Singapore with the objectives of resolving the long-term Korean conflict involving ICBM nuclear weapons and denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. A series of bilateral summits was held between North Korea's Kim Jong-un, China's Xi Jinping, South Korea's Moon Jae-in, and Donald Trump of the United States.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Announcement
The White House confirmed the planned summit between Kim Jong-un and Trump on September 11, 2018. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that the North Korea and the U.S. were "working diligently" to make sure the conditions were right for the summit.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Announcement
Trump stated the host country would be Vietnam, and the dates to be February 27–28, during his second State of the Union Address on February 5, 2019. He later announced that the summit would take place in Hanoi.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Vietnam's reactions and preparations
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh visited North Korea at North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho's invitation from February 12–14. The visit came ahead of the summit, which a spokeswoman from the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on Twitter.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Developments since the June 2018 Summit
Pompeo appointed Stephen Biegun as United States Special Representative for North Korea on August 23, 2018.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Developments since the June 2018 Summit
In September 2018, The New York Times reported that "North Korea is making nuclear fuel and building weapons as actively as ever" but did so quietly, "allowing Mr. Trump to portray a denuclearization effort as on track." Two months later, The Times reported that North Korea appeared to be engaged in a "great deception" by offering to dismantle one missile base while developing sixteen others, and that this expansion program was long known to American intelligence but contradicted Trump’s public assertions that his diplomacy was yielding results. Immediately following the June 2018 summit, Trump had declared "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea ... sleep well tonight!"


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Developments since the June 2018 Summit
A third inter-Korean summit was held September 18–20, 2018, which sought a breakthrough in the hampered talks with the U.S. and a solution for the denuclearization on the Korean peninsula.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Developments since the June 2018 Summit
In November 2018, North Korea repeated its demand that U.S. economic sanctions be lifted as a condition for proceeding with talks, while the Trump administration continued to insist that North Korea make concessions first. Meetings between Pompeo and North Korean officials were scheduled, canceled due to disagreements, and then rescheduled. The February 2019 summit was confirmed after Kim Yong-chol, North Korea’s top negotiator, met with Trump in the Oval Office on January 18, 2019.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Developments since the June 2018 Summit
In the days leading up to the summit, Trump declared that former president Barack Obama had been on the verge of going to war with North Korea and had told Trump so during the transition, which suggested that Trump had pulled the U.S. back from the brink of war; former Obama aides denied these claims.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Developments since the June 2018 Summit
Trump also suggested that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomacy with North Korea, with the U.S. informally asking Japan to nominate Trump, according to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which reported Shinzo Abe doing so, but reports were neither confirmed nor denied, as it is tradition to keep nominations confidential.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Developments since the June 2018 Summit
Noting that one of North Korea's primary objectives is to replace the Korean Armistice Agreement with a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War, Scott Snyder, the senior fellow for Korea studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, observed, "What I worry about is the president may want the peace most — more than the denuclearization...[o]ne of the big worries that people have is that somehow the president is going to trade the alliance for the prospect of a Nobel Peace Prize."


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Developments since the June 2018 Summit
Top American intelligence officials testified to Congress in January 2019 that it was unlikely North Korea would fully dismantle its nuclear arsenal, and Trump national security advisor John Bolton continued to believe North Korea could not be trusted and that denuclearization efforts would fail. Trump asserted that North Korea’s pause of weapons testing since the Singapore summit was a sign of progress, but Bruce Klingner of the Heritage Foundation said there had been longer testing pauses during previous administrations.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Developments since the June 2018 Summit
In the summit, wide gaps persisted between the two countries, including disputes on what the exact definition of denuclearization entailed. In January, Biegun had repeated the official American stance was that sanctions on North Korea would not be lifted until the country had fully denuclearized. On January 31, 2019, Biegun indicated that American negotiators may not demand that North Korea provide a full inventory of its nuclear and missile programs as a first step toward denuclearization, a demand that North Korea had been resisting.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Preparations, Preparatory talks
On October 7, 2018, Pompeo traveled to Pyongyang to negotiate the second summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un. He later met with Moon in Seoul to inform him of the upcoming summit.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Preparations, Preparatory talks
On January 8, 2019, Kim Jong-un with Xi to consult with him on the possibility of the Trump–Kim summit in Vietnam. On February 16, 2019, Reuters reported that Kim Jong-un would arrive in Vietnam on February 25 ahead of the summit.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Preparations, Train journey to Vietnam
Kim Jong-un departed from Pyongyang on February 23, according to images released by the KCNA news agency. The exact itinerary was kept secret. The train arrived in Đồng Đăng railway station of the Vietnamese border city of Đồng Đăng on Tuesday February 26, and Kim Jong-un was scheduled to travel to Hanoi by vehicle.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Preparations, Train journey to Vietnam
Some experts analyzed the reason for long train trip instead of swift air travel: Kim Jong-un decided to follow Kim Il Sung's journey in 1958 to Vietnam through China by using the train for a longer trip.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Meeting location, Locations considered
Bloomberg and the South Korean newspaper Munhwa Ilbo anticipated the location of the second Trump–Kim Summit to be Hanoi, because Vietnam is a long-standing partner of North Korea, and there is also an excellent foreign relationship between Vietnam and the US. During the 2019 State of the Union Address, Trump announced Vietnam as the host of the second meeting between the two leaders.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Meeting location, City choice
There was a list of several Vietnamese cities that were thought to be able to host this event, which included government direct-administered cities (Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City) and some other places like Hạ Long, Nha Trang, and Phú Quốc. However, Hanoi was said to be the best candidate for many reasons, such as being presented with the title “City for Peace” by the UNESCO, the capital of Vietnam, and a favorable place for Vietnamese leaders to meet North Korean and American leaders.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Meeting location, City choice
It was reported that when the city in Vietnam was still being discussed, the main contenders were Hanoi (favored by North Korea because it has its embassy there) and Da Nang (favored by the United States because the 2017 APEC Vietnam summit was held there).


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Meeting location, City choice
On February 8, 2019, Trump confirmed that Hanoi was to host the summit meeting.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Meeting location, Venue choice
North Korean officials had repeatedly investigated the State Guest House and the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, Hanoi's first international hotel, the latter of which became the site for the summit


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, First day, Meeting with Vietnamese leaders
Trump met General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng around 11:42 am local time. They watched the Vietnamese airline executives sign a series of business deals with U.S. companies.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, First day, Meeting with Vietnamese leaders
Trump also had a meeting with the Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on February 27.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, First day, One-on-one meeting
At Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel, Trump and Kim Jong-un had a one-on-one meeting for 30 minutes on Wednesday evening. They started the summit at 6:30 pm local time (6:30am EST) with a handshake and then participated in a one-on-one meeting with interpreters only.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, First day, Dinner
Trump and Kim started with a social dinner in Hanoi on Wednesday. There were a few key attendees at the dinner; seated at the round table were U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, DPRK Vice Chairman Kim Yong-chol, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Yong-ho. Trump assured North Korea a "tremendous future for your country" in his initial comments with Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-un described the second summit as a "courageous political decision" by Trump and also added that there had been "a lot of thinking, effort, and patience" between now and the previous June summit in Singapore.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, First day, Dinner
On the first night of the summit, the White House announced that Trump and Kim Jong-un would sign a “joint agreement” the next afternoon.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, Second day, One-on-one meeting
During the one-on-one meeting in Hanoi, Kim Jong-un was asked by a reporter if he would consider opening a US liaison office in Pyongyang. Kim Jong-un initially hesitated to answer the question and asked Trump to excuse the press from the summit room, but Trump urged Kim Jong-un to answer the question, to which he responded through an interpreter that the idea was “welcomeable”. Trump acknowledged the response as a positive one.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, Second day, One-on-one meeting
After that, another reporter asked if Kim Jong-un was willing to shut down his nuclear program, to which he responded, "If I’m not willing to do that, I wouldn’t be here right now." The leaders went into a closed-room meeting, but the planned working lunch between Trump and Kim Jong-un and the potential joint signing ceremony were canceled. After preliminary negotiations between Trump and Kim Jong-un went over a period of time, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters waiting to cover the lunch that it had been called off.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, Second day, One-on-one meeting
One month after the summit ended, Reuters reported that on the second day of the summit Trump passed Kim Jong-un a note that bluntly called for North Korea to surrender all its nuclear weapons and fuel, in similar fashion to the "Libya model", a proposal the North Koreans had repeatedly rejected. The scheduled ceremonial luncheon was then abruptly canceled and the summit ended.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, Second day, End of summit
On February 28, 2019, the White House announced that the summit was cut short and that no agreement was reached. Sanders did not tell reporters why the schedule was changed and whether there was going to be a signing ceremony; the unexpected turn of events caused stocks on the South Korea stock exchange to fall. Trump said in a press conference after the summit that it was cut short because North Korea wanted an end to economics sanctions. He elaborated and said: "Basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that [...] We had to walk away from that particular suggestion. We had to walk away from that."


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, Second day, End of summit
During the press conference after the summit, Trump discussed American student Otto Warmbier, who was imprisoned for 17 months by North Korea for conviction of subversion, and who died shortly after being returned comatose to the U.S. Trump said he believed Kim Jong-un's word that he did not personally know about Warmbier's alleged poor treatment when Warmbier was in North Korean custody, and that it was not to Kim Jong-un's benefit to allow Warmbier to be treated poorly.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, Second day, End of summit
Hours later, in a rare move, North Korean officials called a news conference. Ri offered a different account of his country's position compared to Trump: North Korea had only proposed a partial lifting of sanctions. He stated that North Korea wanted 5 out of 11 sanctions originally imposed by the United Nations in 2016 and 2017 lifted; in exchange, Ri said that North Korea offered to "permanently and completely" dismantle its primary nuclear facility in Yongbyon, and that American experts would be allowed to observe.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, Second day, End of summit
Ri also quoted North Korea as proposing to put in writing that the country would end all nuclear tests and long-range missile tests. He said that the North Koreans saw that no agreement could be made after the United States demanded one further measure in addition to destroying the Yongbyon nuclear facility. Lastly, Ri concluded that North Korea's proposal would not be changed. According to NK News, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui made the proposal to dismantle Yongbyon just before the talks collapsed, but the U.S. team walked out when Choe was unable to give details.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Summit meeting, Second day, News report
NBC News reported that American negotiators had dropped their demand that North Korea provide a detailed inventory of its nuclear and missile programs on the second day of the summit. Nuclear scientist Dr. Siegfried Hecker claimed: "Yongbyon is the heart of North Korea's nuclear program, and if we are completely dismantling the Yongbyon nuclear facility, North Korea would never be able to make plutonium there again."


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Pre-summit
Cheong Seong-chang, vice president of research planning at the Sejong Institute in South Korea, said: "After the first Trump–Kim summit, for 260 days, they did not waste their timeliness. Instead, they continuously finalized their negotiation strategies for the two leaders' agreement and terms for the next step to be discussed on the second Trump–Kim summit."


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Pre-summit
BBC News believed that Kim Jong-un could have potentially learned from Vietnam's social, political and economic history during the second Trump-Kim summit. While the country has strict rules against political liberalization, it is fairly lax in their social, religious, and economic guidelines. Citizens were able to travel to neighboring countries often. Vietnam also pursued multi-front foreign policies so they would not be dependent on just one economy and built modern systems for banking and finance. According to the BBC, North Korea also learn from Vietnam's mistakes in the past regarding natural resources management and political unrest resolution.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Pre-summit
The BBC believed these are some cases North Korea could learn from Vietnam's practice to help them in improving their economy by attracting foreign investors and developing closer relations with other countries. It was also assumed by the BBC that Vietnam's economic reform is a better pattern for the DPRK to follow than China's.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Pre-summit
Al Jazeera assumed that the impact of China on the second Trump–Kim summit would be significant. The relationship between China and North Korea is centered on "mutual benefit", but it differs from "mutual trust". Australian professor Carlyle Thayer claimed China and North Korea are of the corresponding inclination after Kim Jong-un's four visits to China and "it indicates some kind of coordination". China believes that it is impossible for North Korea to abruptly destroy nuclear missiles. However, it is hoped that North Korea's nuclear missile program will be shut down gradually, as economic sanctions against North Korea will be eased.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Pre-summit
Andrew Kim, former head of the CIA's Korea Mission Center, believes in Kim Jong-Un's genuine desire to achieve denuclearization and get a concession from the United States. In a speech Andrew Kim made on February 22 at Stanford University, he said that Kim Jong-un told United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "[that] he is a father and husband and he does not want his children to live their lives carrying nuclear weapons on their back".


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Pre-summit
He also believes that the DPRK tried to strike a deal with previous administrations, but they waited too long, and they aim to finalize the deal with the Trump administration before it's too late. Kim Jong-un assessed that the closure of the Yongbyon nuclear facility will be the beginning of full denuclearization and that this could lead to a peace treaty. The Yongbyon facility is known to be the center of nuclear development and research in North Korea.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Pre-summit
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Kim Jong-un's previous propaganda was changed into patriotism and economy, and in improving the relationship between the United States, China, and South Korea.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, South Korea and Japan
South Korea and Japan both supported Trump's decision to cut the summit short. However, a spokesman for Moon said "We do regret that President Trump and Kim Jong-un did not reach a complete agreement at today's summit,” but also that the summit "made more meaningful progress than any other time in the past."


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, South Korea and Japan
Jung Da-min, staff reporter at The Korea Times, believed that the Hanoi summit was not a total loss since it still resulted in diplomacy between the two countries. Though no concrete agreement regarding denuclearization was reached, Kim Jong-un was quoted last Tuesday (5 March) that he was committed to the complete denuclearization of his country. However, the description of denuclearization seemed to differ between the U.S. and North Korea, which was why Biegun advised that the U.S. will not accept a “phased denuclearization”. Even though no agreement was signed in Hanoi, both countries are open to future talks, which shows that some agreement was made regarding few agendas, like the installation of a liaison office in Pyongyang.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, South Korea and Japan
Hwang Jihwan, a Professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of Seoul, believed the no-deal outcome of the Hanoi summit was because both parties asked for more than what each could give. He believed that no deal is better than a bad deal, and suggested that the two leaders should aim for realistic goals in future summits; asking for huge deals from each other would not yield favorable results for both sides, but working on smaller, workable agreements that would be meritorious for both countries was better than leaving the negotiation table empty-handed.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, South Korea and Japan
The Chosun Ilbo reported on May 30, 2019 that Kim Hyok-chol, the lead working-level negotiator for North Korea at the Hanoi summit, was executed along with four other diplomats in March 2019. It also reported that Kim Yong-chol was sentenced to hard labor. However, several photos were later released on June 3, 2019, showing Kim Yong-chol alive and attending a musical performance alongside Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol-ju.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
A Monmouth University poll found that while 65% of those surveyed—including 42% of Democrats—agreed that holding the summit was a good idea, 44% said it was likely to help reduce the North Korean nuclear threat.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
Former special assistant to U.S. President Ronald Reagan and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Doug Bandow, compared North Korea and U.S. relations to that of Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, where the agreement resulted in the end of the Cold War. Bandow contended that Trump was demanding unrealistically for Kim Jong Un to dismantle all his nuclear facilities, whereas Kim was only agreeing to shut down the Nyongbyon Nuclear facility in exchange for a partial lifting of a few UN sanctions against his country.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
Asking continuously for an all nukes for sanctions deal is deemed as malicious in its intent and illogical and that it would put a strain on U.S.–North Korean relationships, which were volatile in the past, and could result in more problems for the U.S. and its allies in Asia, according to Bandow.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
Douglas Dillon, Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and former director of Harvard’s Belfer Center, Graham T. Allison, believed that the Hanoi summit is not a complete failure, and compared the state of affairs to the Reagan–Gorbachev era. Like Trump, Reagan also had to deal with negative public opinion regarding his dealings with the USSR, but he was able to remove all of the Soviet Union’s intermediate nuclear-armed missiles with an INF deal. Compared to the USSR, North Korea is also not a normalized country, but Trump was able to directly engage with Kim Jong-un, something George W. Bush and Barack Obama were not able to do in their combined 16-year term.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
U.S. Senior Expert on North Korea, Frank Aum, said that future goals of the Trump administration should be the founding of smaller deals that resulted from the Hanoi summit. Deals that include the declaration of the end of the Korean War, exchange of liaison offices in both Pyongyang and Washington, some sanctions relief, and verified dismantling of some of North Korea's nuclear facilities (Nyngbyon, Punggye-ri, and Dongchang-ri) are attainable. According to Aum, Trump’s "Big Deal" approach to North Korea would have been unrealistic, since it is not possible to achieve complete denuclearization in two years. He also said that some of the road-maps to establishing complete denuclearization might be the most hopeful solution.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
A political scientist specializing in international security, Christopher J. Watterson, argued in The Diplomat that "North Korea’s willingness to give up fissile material production in Nyongbyon might reflect an intent to shift operations to Kangson, rather than an intent to cease fissile material production altogether".


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
Reuters revealed the existence of a document handed to Kim Jong-un by Trump that may have caused the collapse of the Hanoi summit. The document and its contents were first proposed by Bolton in 2004 and—according to Washington-based expert on North Korea, Jenny Town—has been rejected more than once and "... to bring it up again ... would rather be insulting." She also said that the U.S. should have learned that this was not effective diplomacy, and shows they have not learned how to properly negotiate with North Korea.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
Abby Bard, a research associate for Asia policy at the Center for American Progress, suggested Trump and Kim Jong-un's teams need critical space between them to build trust and verify the intentions between the two parties. Without regular communication from both sides, it would be impossible to reach an agreement as they are both skeptical of one another’s intent. Biegun did not meet with his North Korean counterpart before the summit took place, which resulted in the meeting not having enough support for negotiations.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
Despite the collapse of the Hanoi summit, Katharine Moon, professor of political sciences and the Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies at Wellesley College, said that there were good things that came out of it: it opened doors for further negotiations in the future, and these talks require working-level counterparts that aim to pursue respective and mutual interests between the two countries to breakthrough their engagement.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she was glad Trump walked away from the second summit without a joint agreement. She emphasized that "What [the U.S. wants] is the denuclearization of North Korea," and she also believes that although North Korea wanted the sanctions lifted, but refused to give up all their nuclear weapons, it was right that Trump decided not to sign any deal.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
Se Young Jang, a fellow at the Stanton Nuclear Security at MIT’s Security Studies Program, said timing was crucial compared to the previous Clinton Administration’s Agreed Framework with North Korea that failed to proceed. Trump and Kim Jong-un both revealed details of the summit, which left very little room for flexible compromises for future negotiations.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, United States
Pompeo said in an interview with CBS on April 5 that he believed that the summit was an opportunity for both the U.S. and North Korea to have a deeper understanding of each other, and hoped that a third Trump–Kim summit would happen in the near future. He also believed that South Korea is helping with the denuclearization efforts, and he understands that many North and South Koreans have the same blood and they are family.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, Malaysia
Dr. Chiew-Ping Hoo, a professor at the National University of Malaysia, said that the negotiations at the Hanoi summit changed when Bolton was added to the panel. He advised to broaden focus from the Yongbyon nuclear site, and add other sites that produced weapons of mass destruction. Trump had agreed with Bolton’s advice due to U.S. domestic issues, which resulted in a no-deal outcome for the summit. Hoo also believed that North Korea is not convinced that changing the deal is the right course, but to return to the pre-Hanoi agreement details.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, Malaysia
Moon was ready to meet with Kim Jong Un for a fourth time to try and save the stalled denuclearization deals between the U.S. and North Korea; however, Kim Jong-un asked Moon to support a common goal to unite North and South Korea instead of supporting the United States. In previous talks, both leaders agreed to reconnect the railways and roads that run through both their countries, normalize a factory park in Kaesong Industrial Zone, and allow South Korean tourists to visit the Mount Kumgang resort again. However, this joint project required the partial relief of U.N. sanctions to begin operations. Moon also planned to invite Kim Jong-un to ASEAN Summit in South Korea in November 2019.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, Malaysia
Despite the unresolved Hanoi deal, Trump was optimistic that a denuclearization deal can still be achieved from North Korea. Kim Jong-un said that  "[North Korea] maintain[s] good relations with U.S. president, as to be able to exchange letters asking about health anytime if we want", but Kim wanted the U.S. to come to the table with a constructive attitude for the nuclear deal.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, Malaysia
Joseph Yun, the American Special Representative for North Korea Policy until March 2018, said of the summit's outcome: “This really speaks to the lack of preparation. You cannot draft a joint statement out of nothing. They never quite got around to building a consensus around sanctions, and that led to the deadlock.”


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, Malaysia
Veteran diplomacy and national security journalist Michael Gordon reported in The Wall Street Journal: "If the two sides had opted for the traditional bottom-up approach to diplomacy, their diplomats would have worked to close the divide and only arranged for a summit when they appeared to be within striking distance of an agreement. However, U.S. and North Korean diplomats have had only intermittent meetings since the June summit, and both sides bet they would be more successful by pressing their case at another summit. Mr. Kim calculated that Mr. Trump would be more flexible in agreeing to lift sanctions than his subordinates. Mr. Trump, for his part, assumed that he was the best person to pursue the art of the nuclear deal."


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, Malaysia
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations think tank, stated, “No deal is better than a bad deal, and the president was right to walk. But this should not have happened. A busted summit is the risk you run when too much faith is placed in personal relations with a leader like Kim, when the summit is inadequately prepared, and when the president had signaled he was confident of success.”


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, Malaysia
Trump was poorly received for his stance on the Warmbier incident. His supportive remarks for Kim Jong-un in his speeches while negotiating denuclearization were not received well by the Warmbier family, who were grateful to him after their son’s return. Trump said that that the Warmbier case is a "delicate balance," since he was trying to establish a big denuclearization deal with Kim Jong-un, but he sympathizes for the Warmbier family at the same time.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, Malaysia
In the speech he gave to the Conservative Political Action Conference, he mentioned that there were positive developments in negotiating the return of American prisoners in North Korea, and the remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War. His relationship's improvement with Kim Jong-un was beneficial to the U.S.'s national interest.


2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Reactions and analysis, Post-summit, China and Russia
A meeting between Kim Jong-n and Russian president Vladimir Putin was held on 25–26 April 2019. Biegun was scheduled to visit Russia that month to discuss the full denuclearization of North Korea. Putin believed that Kim Jong-un needed international security guarantees to give up North Korea's nuclear arsenal and program.